“ ‘insurgancy’ as the americanas call it, is the natural responce”

The trouble starts when you go looking to connect precisely what abuse and lies-in-power broke in the first place. Oh, the connections are healthy, as is the desire to make them; that drive is all that’s best about us. I don’t know if it’s possible—but the work is worthy: to focus not upon what is destroyed, not even upon your own woundedness, your own death, but just wrench that glare loose. There’s a way to reflect back suffering endured, tilt that lens just so … just blind ‘em. Simply by being—by being and remaining—good.

link: secrets in baghdad

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11 held in Iraq over death of Irish-born aid worker US and Iraqi forces yesterday detained a group of men suspected of abducting and murdering Irish-born aid worker Margaret Hassan last year

no matter what you think of it nor how useless, nor that there aren’t any answers, the question beats on and on and on and on

until i am quite sure what you hear is the exactly the beat of the human heart. no more, no less.

“I think that this tells us first that our base facilities are totally infiltrated by insiders who are passing the word on when and where we are most vulnerable to attack.”

“This sure isn’t playing out like I thought it would.”

“Twenty-one months is not a long time to tame the tribal warfare expected there. My guess is that this will take ten years.”

Washington speaks.

One of Zinni‘s responsibilities while commander-in-chief at Centcom was to develop a plan for the invasion of Iraq. Like his predecessors, he subscribed to the belief that you only enter battle with overwhelming force.

But Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld thought the job could be done with fewer troops and high-tech weapons.

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